murder for hire

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murder for hire

When I kill you

2012
When mud-wrestling postal worker Gina Lopez is blackmailed, the results are amusing, confusing, and potentially life-threatening as she strives to find ways not to carry out a contract killing.

Shot

a novel
2002
After her husband is shot after a series of suspicious events, Lucy Greene sets out to uncover the truth behind his death, and in the process she stumbles onto a dangerous secret about a government-sponsored biological warfare program that her husband was involved in.

Killjoy

2002
Avery Delaney, driven by her past to a career in law and order, must use all her skills to save her aunt when she is kidnapped as part of a mad plot for revenge.

Abandoned

a thriller
2009
When an incoherent, emaciated woman stumbles down the aisle at a wedding filled with law enforcement agents, FBI special agent Smoky Barrett is pulled into the investigation and uncovers evidence of a psychopathic serial killer who let the woman go free as a warning and set a trap that threatens the lives of Smoky and her team.

Derailed

a novel
2003
Charles Schine, a steady man with a longtime job, a wife, and an ill child, finds his life spiraling out of control when he becomes involved with a married woman.

Ten big ones

2004
Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is the only witness to a robbery by the notorious Red Devil's gang and hides out in fellow bounty hunter Ranger's apartment to escape the gang and other seedy characters while the police try to nab the culprits.

Requiem for an assassin

2008
Professional assassin John Rain tries to build a new life for himself in Paris with the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, but when an old friend is held hostage, John is forced to return to his old way of life to save his friend.

Ten big ones

2005
Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is the only witness to a robbery by the notorious Red Devil's gang and hides out in fellow bounty hunter Ranger's apartment to escape the gang and other seedy characters while the police try to nab the culprits.

The twelfth card

a Lincoln Rhyme novel
2005
Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find themselves on a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as they try to outguess a cunning serial killer.

Unbridled rage

a true story of organized crime, corruption, and murder in Chicago
2005
Recounts the true story of the 1955 murders of three Chicago boys and the ATF agents who, forty years after the crime was committed, launched their own investigation and tracked down the killer.

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